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title: De ting gone on dis way tel Buh Wolf tun home. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: De ting gone on dis way tel Buh Wolf tun home. Who acts: De ting. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 6, sentence 57

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De ting gone on dis way tel Buh Wolf tun home.

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**Who acts:** De ting · **What happens:** go, tun · **To what, where:** De ting, way tel

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De ting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:6:57
# text = De ting gone on dis way tel Buh Wolf tun home.
1	De	de	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ting	ting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tel	tel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	tun	tun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  | De ting *not said here* |  | way tel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tel=Location |
| 2 | **tun** | present | De ting |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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